Born in 1992 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Hugo Radi graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor in Film from École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL).
His shorts FEDOR (2016) and SWIZZAIR (2015) both screened at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
ALBA and INITIAL (2022) premiered at Visions du Réel in Nyon.
NIGHT SHIFT (2023) premieres at the Locarno Film Festival.
A highly secure conference centre, nestled in the mountains. Hugo Radi combines a creative way of filming this locus of power with two fictional voice-over accounts to construct a dystopian world with real contours. This speculative film seems to draw inspiration from the most frightening elements of our contemporary societies.
A black screen. A bottle breaks on the bitumen. A few insults are flung. The decor of an industrial area, first thing in the morning, after a busy night. Three friends “find” a vehicle and climb in for a journey with no clear aim. Except for one of them, troubled by the guilt of having cheated on Alba, who is arriving the next evening. Someone told him about a cross, painted on a cliff over the Genevan countryside, which is supposed to reconcile those who reach it with their innermost selves. Beyond a mystic, post-drinking delirium, the strapping lad believes that the climb to the summit will help him find the courage to talk to his girlfriend.
Two young boys have stolen some expensive scarves and are being pursued. To get out of town, they hijack a young lady’s vehicle. She ends up following them as they flee.
A permission, an eternal return, it is in this suspended context, out of space and time, that the gathering of three young men happens, under the bright and suffocating lights of the bank district and the luxury boutiques of the city of Geneva, a symbol of a cold and radical social cleavage. Between masculinity, violence and ethic, everything seems to be made in order for the friends to deconstruct the universe, alone, at the top of the world.
242 Skateboards / Redline Films / Evil Twinz present SPIRAL TRIBE.